{"id":3488,"date":"2023-02-12T13:49:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T21:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=3488"},"modified":"2023-02-12T18:00:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T02:00:20","slug":"barn-find-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2023\/02\/12\/barn-find-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Barn Find 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to buy and deliver a trio of toilets to the father-in-law’s house on Saturday in preparation for a plumber to come in and swap them all out, and I knew we wouldn’t be able to fit three toilets, two adults and a dog in a Honda, so I loaded them in the Scout and drove it down. I haven’t had her out on the road much in the last month, but she did great going down and back.<\/p>\n

On the way back home I was thinking about how happy I was to have a clear windshield, and for some reason I decided to try the wipers even though I haven’t put the arms and blades back on. To my shock, the knobs began spinning; some how, some way, the wiper system started working again<\/em>. I haven’t done anything new. I haven’t futzed with any of the wiring or mechanical systems. Clearly there’s a short somewhere, but it appears to have fixed itself temporarily.<\/p>\n

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I woke up early Sunday morning to a text from Brian, containing a Marketplace link to this green pickup sitting at a used car lot in New Jersey. It was advertised as a non-running truck with 4WD and no title, but the price was reasonable, so I figured I’d check it out. Within an hour I’d heard back from the seller and had an address to visit, about three hours away from home. I gassed up the Honda, loaded up on coffee, and was on the road by 9:15. I wound up retracing some of my route to go see the blue pickup<\/a>, as this one wasn’t far away from there.<\/p>\n